Winning Food & Wine magazine’s Home Cook Superstar contest in 2010 enabled Sarah Simmons to leave her job as a retail strategist to follow her passion for cooking. In 2011, she opened City Grit, a New York “culinary salon.” In September 2014, she opened Birds & Bubbles, a NYC restaurant focusing on fried chicken and champagne. In less than five years, this former business-by-day, home-cook-by-night has become a well-known chef with her own line of City …